Monthly Archives: June 2013

It’s been so long since I have been able to post anything, it feels like ages and ages! Since I last wrote, I have closed out one show, and am now vigorously working on another one, so not much in the way of down-time. It is all a very good, very exciting sort of busyness, but goodness gracious I have missed crafting and writing to you all 🙂

SO! I thought I’d share one of the last little crafty ideas I got to play around with before life sped up so much.

I’ve been looking for some fun ways to use baby wash cloths as table decorations for the shower, and there are lots of super cute ideas on Pinterest to spark one’s creativity. After surfing around a bit for inspiration, I came up with these!

I ended up making several “Sweet” items from washcloths, including a Lolli Pop, Hard Candy, and a couple mini Cupcakes. Don’t they just look good enough to eat?

Yum, yum, yummy! Perhaps I shall make some cute little milk shakes out of the T-shirts as well??
Oh, one quick note: I used straight pins to help hold my little goodies together, because I intend to use them as decorations and then take them apart later. If you are going to be giving these as a gift, I would suggest using safety pins, tape, or ribbon to help keep their shape, so there is no potential for finger pricking when the mommy-to-be pulls them apart.

That’s all for now, too, too busy these days! Hope you are having a splendid summer, sweetings! 🙂

The last time I showed you my Knit Ottoman Pouf Project it was just a large, gregarious, exceptionally chunky piece of knitting hanging off of equally large knitting needles.

But now! NOW it is all grown up into a very respectful piece of home decor! It is a completed pouf, a finished footstool, a very- well, you get the picture 😉

Ready to see it? Okay!!

Here
it
comes:

Voila!!What do you think? Doesn’t it make you want to prop your feet up and relax? Isn’t the lime color just happy? It makes me think of a giant scoop of Lime Sherbet.

I ended up using around 2 yards of polar fleece cut into 1.5 inch strips, and sewed them together end-to-end. For stuffing, I used scraps from old blankets I have cut up for other projects in the center, ten surrounded that with polyester fiberfill, and finally tucked in an old white sheet around everything so nothing would poke out through the spaces in the knitted fabric.

Here’s a rather silly shot of it with one of my giant tissue paper flowers on it (see herefor a tutorial in making your own!). I thought it looked like a funny little flowering cactus, hehe…

I simply cannot wait to see this pouf in my baby nephew’s Nursery. Lime Green is (tentatively) the main accent color, so it should fit in pretty well. But seeing as the nursery isn’t ready yet, I’ll have to be content moving it around our house; doesn’t it look rather dramatic against all the white of the kitchen? 🙂

I really am pretty pleased with it, especially since I came up with the pattern on my own. In fact, I have a nice pile of bright orange fleece in my room that may need to become a pouf as well… hmmm…

That’s all for now, my dears. I’ll have some more lovely, lime-y things to show you soon!

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I'm Rachel, and I have been knitting, crocheting, and crafting for most of my life; I absolutely love it! But even more than creating things, I love sharing them with others. That's why I started myonline shop, and why I created this pretty little space; to share with you!